USAID Integrated Health Systems Grant Overview
USAID spearheads global development and humanitarian endeavours aimed at preserving lives, diminishing poverty, fortifying democratic governance, and enabling individuals to advance beyond aid.
By executive order, President John F. Kennedy established the United States Agency for International Development in 1961 to oversee the US government’s activities in humanitarian aid and international development.
Through locally-led, evidence-driven, and context-specific approaches to HSS, the Integrated Health System Strengthening (IHSS) program seeks to accelerate nations’ efforts to strengthen their health systems and create robust, equitable, and sustainable health systems. The advancement of primary health care (PHC), hastening the transition to universal health coverage (UHC), and enhancing health outcomes are the main objectives.
By assisting USAID in achieving its top global health priorities—preventing maternal and child deaths, managing the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and battling infectious diseases—investments in HSS directly support the security of global health.
To produce high-quality health services, which are vital for attaining long-term health gains, fostering economic growth, and advancing democratic development generally, a more robust and easily accessible health system is required.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) invests in HSS through policies, initiatives, and activities aimed at improving the country’s health system performance over time. A health system includes all individuals, institutions, resources, and activities whose primary goal is to promote, restore, and sustain health. A strong health system supports all health investments, boosts resilience, and improves health and well-being for everyone.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an upsurge in mortality, resulting in the first global decline in life expectancy in a century and refocusing global attention on the long-term health and development value of robust health systems.
Sustaining and expanding health outcome accomplishments in USAID’s priority areas necessitates strong and strategic investments in cross-cutting, integrated HSS programming. This includes but is not limited to, investments in primary health care, which are essential for obtaining universal health coverage.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that expanding PHC interventions in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) might save 60 million lives and raise average life expectancy by 3.7 years by 2030.1 USAID is coordinating investments in PHC to counteract current global life expectancy declines while also fostering resilience and preparedness for future threats.
HSS investments lay the groundwork for continuing success in PHC and attaining broader global goals, such as all of the targets for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.
Which aim to ensure healthy lifestyles and promote well-being for people of all ages.2 HSS investments are critical to meeting SDG target 3.8 (“Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all”), as well as the other SDG 3 goals.
USAID understands that continued progress toward health outcomes necessitates well-coordinated HSS programming.
This program focuses on integrated HSS activities that use a systems perspective to work across health areas to solve common system challenges and boost system-wide performance, promoting long-term improvements in health outcomes.
This includes activities that promote financial protection, efficiency, and affordability of health services in general; ensure the quality or availability of an essential package of prevention, promotion, treatment, and care services; improve equitable access to priority services for underserved, marginalized, and other high-priority groups; and guarantee community flexibility.
To achieve USAID’s HSS goals, programs ought to concentrate on three health system outcomes: health equity, quality, and resource optimization.
USAID Integrated Health Systems Grant Eligibility
USAID accepts submissions from groups that have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
USAID invites submissions from local organizations as well as consortiums that involve local organizations. USAID defines a “local entity” as an individual, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other group of people that:
- Is legally constituted under the laws of;
- The company’s primary location and operations are:
- The majority of the property is owned by citizens or lawful permanent residents, and
- Controlled by a governing body composed primarily of nationals or lawful permanent residents of the country receiving aid.
Faith-based groups can request federal financial support in the same way that any other organization might, and they are subject to the same legal safeguards and restrictions.
Note: The application’s current deadline: is July 6, 2024. Click here to apply.
